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In French

1. Chacune des deux masses charnues situées à la partie postérieure du bassin, chez l’être humain et certains mammifères.
2. En parlant d’un voilier, la partie arrière qui s’arrondit, s’élevant au-dessus de la flottaison.
3. La vie ou le corps d’une personne.
4. Activité sexuelle.
5. Utilisé pour dire fait-il dans l’expression « comment se fesse que ».

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fesse f, from Old French fesse f, from Vulgar Latin *fissa f (“split, cleft”), from Latin fissum n, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidtós. Originally referred to the gluteal cleft. The verb fesser and its derivatives are etymologically unrelated and converged toward fesse in both form and sense through assimilation.

More French words

• fessade
• fessalgie
• fessanvillierois
• fessard
• fesse-cahier
• fesse-mathieu
• fesse-tonneau
• Fessebouc

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